St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-05
THE DEs MONIES SERIES.
Reference TO Some OF the Inaccu
racies of the ssOfficial ScOre.''

Special to the Globe.
DES MONIES, Ia, May 1.-The st. Paul
base bail boys suffered yeritable Waterloo
IN their first series with the DeS MoineS
cam, the last game Of which was played
yesterday. The local club has proved itself
% be much stronger than was antici-
pated, although its most Sanguine supporters
lid not at any time, until the end of the
ainth inning Of the last game, expect to see
the st. Paul club loose all the games
Those who have read the official score in
detail, are not much wiser than if it had
never been published. as it is full
Of inaccuracies and does great
Injustice to the st. Paul players in many
respects. Although the home team did not
fail to receive full credit for all the playing
they did, and right here l will remark that
it would be better for Des Moines had they
an official scorer who was unprecedented in
base ball matters and who Thoroughly
understood the game, for, judy
ing from the official reports that
have been made of the DeS MoineS-St.
Paul games there must be either lack of
knowledge OF partial feeling somewhere.
In the game last Saturday St. Paul was
given nine base hits, when thirteen were
made, and in yesterdays game the
home team was credited with
seventeen base hits off Viau.
1t may be that the intentions of the scorer
were all right, but if they were he certainly
has very indefinite conception of what
constitutes base hit, as but ten safe hits
were made by Des Mones, and only one of
their players given his base
on balls Stockwel was also given
passed ball, but the one
CO, nd Of Of
St. Paul boys to reach second, was not
charged to him in the summary. In Mon
days game Campbell struck out four of the
st. Pauls and Sowders was given but the
same number although eight of the Des
Moines team agitated the atmos-
phere four times without finding
the ball. An occasional error in giving
players credit for what they do or don't do
NAV be overlooked, but when the figures
come so far from being correct, it savors
very much on the intentional. Our
boys did not complain, however.
of losing game, until yester-
day, when the rank decision of the
umpire made it impossible to restrain. and,
if what | hear is true. and 1 have good
reason to believe it is, Mr.. Daily was not in
condition yesterday which a man ought
to be in who is called upon to exercise
good Judgment and render impartial
decisions. However, the people of st. Paul
have no reason to condemn the team for
losing these games, and if they knew the
circumstances under which they were
PLAYED, and had had the benefit of
correct and unbiased scores, their
opinion of the club would be far
different from what it probably is
StOckwell was compelled to catch all three
games owing to CallenderS sickness, which
confined him to his room most of the time
and he acquitted himself well in every one
of them. Crooks has been on the sick
list also, and was not displaced
by SONders, as the Des Moines
papers stated last evening" and
both he and Calender will be in trim for
the game at La Crosse tomorrow. We leave
for La Crosse this morning and open the
series there tomorrow; but before quitting
Des Moines the boys have registered a
solemn VOW that the next time they de-
part from here they will be more than even
with the local team. B. w. l..